Salih: Welcome to the Dalay Cigar Blog
OK Dickie, tell us - we are guests here in your office and design halls , is that right?
Dickie: Right.These are our rooms with office and exhibition space and this is where our ideas arise.
Salih: And one or another boisterous party took place in here. Dickie: right
Salih: This evening we keep our feet on the ground
As we have to work...
...in terms of work and less phat I welcome Michael, who had has and will accompany us and so forth
Michael: Why don't you say bother? Say what you think
Salih: Yeah, yeah yeah Who is missing is our dear friend Zoki.
Zoki is taking care of the hostesses at the Austrian snow board World Cup
For our 20th Anniversary as importer Michael has landed the number one brand in the USA for us.
Dickie: Well done Michael! Salih: The company CROWNED HEADS
honoured us to import their cigars to Germany
John Huber will add a video message, too Michael: Maybe not Salih: Maybe not.
I did not do any homework not about the cigar nor the brand
Because I am very good in pro inviting myself and degassing and producing and passing on activity
Therefore Michael may say something on this Michael: You mean to delegate
Salih: del..pa..ohh if this is how it's called I am not good in loanword
Michael: What should I do now? Salih: The brand, what is it , who is it
Michael: Ah Four Kicks no Headly Grange
Crowned Heads, Headly what?!
The brand, you meantioned it as the hottest brand in the USA
Salih: It's a fact, yeah
Michael: It's a fact. Two guys from CAO, you might know this from the Brazil or Italia or The Sopranos Edition
They decided to do their own thing
Have called the company Crowned Heads
And the Hedaley Grange was delveloped out of the idea to make a cigar taste as a song
and not any song but a song from Led Zeppelin in fact the first 6 secounds of When the Levee Brakes
That's a phat drum riff, that's hammering down there
And this is how the cigar is supposed to taste
Salih: But you will not play this now, too in adition to your guitar tootle
Michael: I did not want to anyway and it is not written in my contract, I said I do it anyway
Salih: Lucky us. You are saved from Michael at the drumsticks
The cigar starts sensational full-bodied. On the middle of the strength scale. Seems to make a lot of fun.
The artwork is very restrained.
Dickie, for you as a cigar beginner how do you see the strength?
Dickie: ehm, I find it very pleasant, has a nice strength, I'd put in the lower sector
Makes a lot of fun, a nice cigar I am keen on how it goes on in the next thirds.And yes, very pleasant.
Salih: Nice to hear,so you see suitable for beginners.too
Michael, you as would-be afficionado, how do you like it?
Michael: Why would-be?! Salih: It takes a while until you are able to
degassing, retro-shave and first of all...ehm Michael: not enough to become a Salihfi so far
Salih: I mean only because you once blended the Dalay Intifada (talking about the Limitada) you don't need to play the high-flyer now
What do you say about the stick now?
Michael: Stick is sweet, almond paste sweet
And very important for me: NO PEPPER!
I hate pepper!
No pepper, amlond paste sweetness, and roasted almonds
This is not a complex cigar, but like from the first puff - straight in your face
nothing left or right, not filigree or something but strong in flavours.
And the good thing is, the strength is medium
so not so light , it will hit you during the smoke Dickie: I'm curious about it. Michael: We are around 6 / 10
maximum 7 / 10 in strenght
but to the end it will get stronger, right?
I find this thing totally phat.
Salih: Very pleasant, very creamy, and what is hard, the more flooded the German market is
by new brands, and you loose the overview
it has an unique feature In this character I would not know a 2nd stick
Michael: nuts, Slaih, nuts Salih: You should have 'em for sure! Michael: NUTS
Salih: The stick stays very pleasant, makes a lot of fun
My ashes still standing as always in contrast to
Ok Dickie I can understand he is Michael: so nervous, right
Salih: He is learner, and puts down his ashes every five secounds, Michael...
Michael: What's that to you?!
Salih: Michael simply is not able to, but no need to discuss this now
Michael: Once a good Whiskey to have, just one time!
Salih: It is fucking cold in here, therefore we have the colleague Prichard's with us
Dickie: Double Barrel, right? Salih: That's Double Barrel, there he knows his business.
Cigars, no clue but that this is Double Barrel he pointed out with his first sip.
Dickie: And this is good, this is really good! Salih: That is really good and makes fun, too.
And limbers us up.
Very recommended to this and for sure other cigars
Dickie, we are here at a bar you made somehow
That's not one of your highlights is it?
Dickie: No that's not one of my highlights
Because it is like always
Dickie got an idea?
Do something.
We need a bar
Good, OK.
I said then gimme some old boxes
good...Michael: Has to be low cost Dickie: Has to be low cost for sure.
Always has to be cheap!
That's the main target from our friend.
Salih: And fast! Dickie: and fast.Always daily actions. One day, need to be done.
Michael: But you do tables on demand right?
Dickie: Yes, you can order nice things for me to do, too.
Salih: And bars and lamps and if you need something to be done.
Michael: He does a lot in Corian Salih: If it has to be fast, Dickie is the man.
Yo apart from that, no clue, we are cold and the Whisky is warming
Dickie: really phat. MUMBLING ALL AROUND
Michael: You don't need ice cubes
Dickie: No nothing, nothing.Just a glas and the bottle that's superb
Salih: Listen, I have raisins so orange zest Michael: What's the name of your sister?
Salih: raisin and ehm Dickie: Her name is pink zest
Salih: yeah yeah
Michael: And you still like the cigar Salih?
Salih: What I am saying
Michael: Nice thing is it stays phat, throughout the whole smoke
It's not like it is reducing or changing
It is there, what is there is good and present it's yummy -
Dickie: Look what a nice ash he has Michael: Yes, now he had .
Very yummy cigar. Dickie: I thought you would at least ash to the ground, ahh Salih Michael: See you in the next 3rd.
Michael: Ah, hello Dickie: Ah Michael There lays it, right?
Michael: He did not take care again You can do the cigar a s tight as you want for him
Dickie: But good that you can clean the bar easily Michael: Not his business, right
Dickie: No, who will take care of it as always?
Dickie: Let's sink one more. Really good, or? Michael: Yeah very good.
Headley Grange Estupendos from the Dominican Republic
We have a sensational Sumatra wrapper
I am fan of Sumatra wrappers!
Michael: you go off on it, right?
Salih: Totally
filler & binder are from Nicaragua
You may ask why is this from the Domenican Republic?
This question will be answered by Dickie or Michael in an upcoming episode
I will start with the SWAG today 8 / 10
8 / 10 because phat band, phat size I only say Estupendos
Flavour: 8 / 10 Strength: 7 / 10
The cigar gets stronger, not only in terms of flavour but also strength
I have intense herbal notes first of all rose pepper and ehm
Points: 90!
Hammer stick. Dickie? And you?
Dickie: Yes, even for me as beginner a really nice cigar
Gets a bit stronger at the end
Very pleasant smoke
Nice taste
Points: I'd say 91 points
Really recommended for beginners as well.
Nice thing!
Michael: very yummy, the sweetness gets stronger, more intense, carries me away
yummy...no pepper, very important
ununsually no rose paprika as you are used to it from my end normally
fantastic 91 points
Salih: Yeah, you wanted to say something about the production site.
Michael: I did want to Salih: Then go for it.
Michael: Yes the thing is rolled in the DomRep from none other than
Ernesto Perez Carillo who is rolling them all on his own
No he doesn't - he has a lot of co-workers that do a phantastic job
A legend in the tobacco business
Nicaragua filling & binding and your darling a Sumatra wrapper
That's always giving a special component to a cigar, a Sumatra wrapper , very very yummy
91 points for a series, fantastic!
Shout out to Crowned Heads.
Thank you guys for believing in us
We will rock Germany with your sticks!
Michael: We always try to get the best products to Germany
In this case with Crowned Heads we have landed a super stick, as I think
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